Electrochemical instability of phosphonate-derivatized, ruthenium(III) polypyridyl complexes on metal oxide surfaces

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 9554-9562

  Hyde, Jacob T ^a   Hanson, Kenneth ^b,c   Vannucci, Aaron K ^b,d   Lapides, Alexander M ^b   Alibabaei, Leila ^b   Norris, Michael R ^b   Meyer, Thomas J ^b   Harrison, Daniel P ^a  

^a VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

chromophore; dye sensitized; electrochemistry; interfaces; phosphonate; photoelectrosynthesis; ruthenium; stability

Indexed keywords

CHROMOPHORES; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; DESORPTION; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTROCHEMICAL OXIDATION; ELECTRODES; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGANDS; NANOCOMPOSITES; OXIDATION; OXIDATION RESISTANCE; RUTHENIUM; RUTHENIUM ALLOYS; RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS; STABILITY; TIN OXIDES;

DYE SENSITIZED; ELECTROCHEMICAL INSTABILITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL MONITORING; PHOSPHONATES; PHOTO-ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER SPLITTING; PHOTOELECTROSYNTHESIS; RUTHENIUM POLYPYRIDYL COMPLEXES;

ELECTROCHEMISTRY;

EID: 84929210584     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b01000     Document Type: Article

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